t I do not now wish to go back
to them: for if I go back to my own country, I might be taken as a slave
again. I would rather stay here, where I am free, than go back to my
country to be sold. I shall stay in England as long as (please God) I
shall live. I wish the King of England could know all I have told you. I
wish it that he may see how cruelly we are used. We had no king in our
country, or he would have stopt it. I think the king of England might stop
it, and this is why I wish him to know it all. I have heard say he is
good; and if he is, he will stop it if he can. I am well off myself, for I
am well taken care of, and have good bed and good clothes; but I wish my
own people to be as comfortable."
"LOUIS ASA-ASA."
"_London, January 31, 1831_."
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